Animal Activists

In my personal essay class this morning, we discussed an essay we were assigned to read and the main topic of the essay involved thinking about where your food has been before you eat it. For example, the focus of the piece was lobsters. Our teacher asked if we had ever really thought about how the lobsters were cooked and where they were kept before we ate them. They were kept in a tank with many other lobsters, their claws were stuck together due to the rubber band put around them, and then they were thrown in boiling water while they were still alive. When asked what we thought about all of that, there was a trend that consisted of guys in the class not really caring about the preparation process, while most of the girls in the class said they were vegetarians and they are totally against eating animals that were once living.
I thought to myself, "how bad has this stereotype gotten?" It's like all of the guys were afraid to say that they like animals, the chances that every guy in the class couldn't care less about boiling living lobsters is highly unlikely. Getting away from the class, I believe it has become "whimpy" for a guy to say he cares about animals because it may show his sensitive side and that would take away from his masculinity.
I was surprised at how far we have come, a guy can't even care about animals anymore. SAD!